Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Tequila Sunset

I took a little time to
finish my feather sampler. I found a kit called Crescendo by Toadusew
Creative Concepts which uses a wonderful gradated fabric by Caryl
Bryer Fallert Gentry. It was hanging in the vendor's booth, quilted
with glorious feathers in gold thread. This is the full piece.

My feather plan is quite a
bit different, in that I started with overlapping circles to break up
the space.

And, then I started
filling everything in with lots of feather styles. I wanted a more
contemporary kind of wholecloth quilt. And, while lots of wholecloth
quilts have feathers spilling out of quilted urns, I decided to pour
them out of a pitcher.

I turned one of the
circles into a sunflower with curved crosshatching. And, there is a
peacock feather in the space where the circles overlap. And, of
course, one must have a feathered heart and some continuous curve
gridwork.

Then, more filling of the
space. I tried to use a variety of quilting density for variety, some
large and loopy, others tightly done.